Self-hosted admin account login?

[cfcohen]

Hello, I've successfully started PubPub platform on self-hosted system. I had to do some Postgres configuration and then edit jobs/.env.development to put my postgres password in the DATABASE_URL environment variable. I also had some problems with "hydration" but disabling all of my browser plugins seems to have fixed that.

Now when connecting to localhost:3000 (which I found in the pnpm console) I get a login screen, but no matter what I enter (not that I have any idea what to enter) I get "Error: An unexpected error occurred (Error ID ". How is the admin user configured, and how can I access the server?

I also have a warning about "SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN is not set", but that doesn't seem to be the problem. Storybook is running correctly on port 6006, or so I presume, since I have lots of configuration options. I'm logging accesses to "/login?redirectTo=%2F" in my core#dev environment but I am not logging errors anywhere that I can see.

[cfcohen]

Also because maybe this matters... I successfully ran "pnpm build --filter core", but "pnpm build --filter storybook" and "pnpm build" fail with errors about being unable to resolve a wide variety of things. Some examples of the errors are:

│ Could not resolve "../../../../stitches.config" from "../packages/context-editor/node_modules/ui/node_modules/@radix-ui/react-alert-dial
│ og/src/AlertDialog.stories.tsx"

| Could not resolve "./button.css" from "../node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected][email protected]
│ [email protected]._ub5uzwey2o25er4tmsk7n55kwe/node_modules/@storybook/react/template/cli/js/Button.jsx"

│ Could not resolve "./header.css" from "../node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]_@[email protected][email protected][email protected]
│ [email protected]._ub5uzwey2o25er4tmsk7n55kwe/node_modules/@storybook/react/template/cli/ts-4-9/Header.ts

I got those by commenting out the offending lines to see what else it would complain about. To cleanup thoroughly and try again, I did:

$ rm -rf node_modules ~/.npm ../pnpm-store
$ pnpm install
Scope: all 15 workspace projects
Lockfile is up to date, resolution step is skipped
Packages: +2222
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
...
Progress: resolved 2222, reused 0, downloaded 2200, added 2222, do
...
devDependencies:
+ @babel/core 7.25.2
+ @babel/preset-env 7.25.4
+ @babel/preset-react 7.24.7
+ @babel/preset-typescript 7.24.7
+ @preconstruct/cli 2.8.10
+ @pubpub/prettier-config 0.1.0 <- config/prettier
+ @turbo/gen 2.1.1
+ concurrently 9.0.1
+ husky 8.0.3
+ lint-staged 13.3.0
+ pino-pretty 10.3.1
+ prettier 3.3.3
+ turbo 2.1.1

Done in 12.8s
$ pnpm build
...
│ x Build failed in 1.25s
│ => Failed to build the preview
│ Could not resolve "../../../../stitches.config" from "../packages/context-editor/node_modules/ui/node_modules/@radix-ui/react-alert-dial
│ og/src/AlertDialog.stories.tsx"

[tefkah]

We are currently working on streamlining the self-hosting (non-dev) setup! I will update you in a week or so with more details, as it should be possible to properly self host Platform by then.

One of the main things missing is the ability to setup an admin account, which we add soon!

[cfcohen]

Is there any update on self-hosting setup instructions?

[tefkah]

Hi, thanks for the follow up! We now have experimental support for self-hosting, to be found in the /self-host folder here: https://github.com/pubpub/platform/tree/main/self-host/README.md

let me know how it goes! the documentation is not in a "ready" state yet and you may encounter some bugs, so please just use this to experiment for now!

[nomad101]

I've installed locally, all docker containers running, and created admin account. But when I try to login with credentials, it redirects me back to login page. (It does recognise my username and password, as if I try a incorrect password, an error message appears).

I first thought the problem was with my admin account needing to be verified via email. I changed postgres admin user entry to verified.

However, I still have same problem of being redirected after trying to login, with an url that looks like this: http://xxx:3000/login?error=You+must+be+logged+in+to+access+this+page&body=Please+log+in+to+continue&redirectTo=%2Fsettings

[nomad101]

Additionally, it's not clear how to set up locally without entering an email address. When I commented out mailgun settings in .env, the site failed to load. Or if I left admin email blank, that didn't work either.

[nomad101]

Update: I managed to install pubpub on a VPS (with Caddy reverse proxy), and was able to login. Therefore, seems to be an issue with the local set up. (I'm have limited tech knowledge).